Gregory: "...in a matter of days"

Completely unexpected turn from Gregory with his new release "...in a matter of days". No crunching guitars, soaring vocals, deep pondering lyrics, bone-crushing rhythms....

The new album is 9 songs that are primarily contemplative, introverted, and will likely transport the listener to lost inner worlds.

A mix of electronic and acoustic instruments, the shortest song clocks in at just under 5 minutes. The longest at over 14 minutes! With titles like "the sacrifice of pawns", "after the fall", and "the perfect emotion", this is a meditative collection that will not only sooth and transport, but also likely bring up images and poetic fragments from your mind.

GET IT.

"Vivid Dominion" by Gregory

The new album by Gregory, "Vivid Dominion", has been released (12-21-12).

All thumbs up - get it fast while you still can!!

http://gregoryfrancis.bandcamp.com/

"Dead River Scriptures" released by Gregory

Gregory has released a new album: "Dead River Scriptures". This is his 7th release, and a follow-up to last year's "Apostacy".


We'll provide a review soon, but for now DIG IT:

http://gregoryfrancis.bandcamp.com/album/dead-river-scriptures

Artist Spotlight: Gregory

Musician, author, poet...and visual artist. Original art taken from a sampling of his baker's dozen of solo releases over the years. Enjoy (and enjoy his music at the link HERE).

Most Influential Guitarists of All Time

I typically dislike such lists. Strongly. They're always informative of the writer's personal tastes, which is fine, but too often presented as some sort of factual list based on objective standards. That is simply not the case.

So I've opted for a mildly different approach and tried to find peak moments across both historical & stylistic lines by which to choose guitarists as not so much an announcement of my personal aesthetic, but as an educational tool. Many an incredible and influential player didn't make it onto this particular list (names like Cobain & Satriani, Django & Wes, de Lucia & DiMeola, Gambale & Clapton, Emmanuel & Vai, and more are sure to figure largely in the critiques), but I had to narrow this down to a manageable list and so choices had to be made. Some of these players also taught - no small point in being influential during one's time as well as across time.

So....in somewhat chronological order, a Baker's Dozen of best:

"Nemesis Tori" by Gregory Francis (intro & part one of 3)

 NEMESIS TORI

by

Gregory Francis

"Nemesis Tori" by Gregory Francis (part 2 of 3)

NEMESIS TORI (part 2 - find part one HERE)

- - - Part II - - -

NEPHILIM CRUX

TIMON DATE (TD) = TD-28999.280.2220

(Christian Date = 11,001 BC, 80 days till year's end, 10:20 p.m.)

2:1

Deep in the Sides of the North are hidden the Machines,

Disciples of the New Religion -

Start to see meaning in the seams -

That sew hot fabrics close together -

Forming patterns on their elemental reams.

                            Denominations 9:18

                            AHKANON

  (Mountain Archives, Edonos)

                                             

"Man should not play God!" Jahamon Gabrali pressed through clenched teeth. He was a devout student of The Path. How could the simple readouts on a computer screen challenge his faith thus? 

For many centuries, The Path had been accepted as the only true belief. It was the very Word of God! None could challenge its simple laws leading to a cleaner, healthier, happier life. And unlike most of the secondary religions, its references to bygone times were backed up with hard archaeological evidence. From the emergence of Man through the destruction of paradise by the flood, to the eventual reclamation of the land by wandering men.

"Nemesis Tori" by Gregory Francis (part 3 of 3)

 

- - - Part III - - -

CHERIBUM VOID

TIMON DATE (TD) = TD-41999.358.0713

(Christian Date = 1999 AD, 7 days till years end, 7:13 a.m.)

3:1

                   "Fears from afar

              Killing many Holy ones -

              Spears made of stars

              A Testament in quantum sums -"

                            The Day of our Lord 9:19, v,5

                            AHKANON

  (Seventh Decription, WC-ARC-DIV.)

Content in the knowledge that theirs was superior, a secret sect, affiliated with a branch under control of the advocates of the New Order, initiated the final sequence of commands that would loose upon the world a wave of stars, setting them down upon the cities of their adversaries, reducing them in the cleansing nuclear fires. To them, no choices were left. One course only remained. With their masses starving, their allies turning away from them, the Common Market closing them off from the economic flows of the world, their lifeblood was swiftly draining away. What was there to loose? What could justify continuing such an existence?